Call for Papers on two Topics: Hemingway and Material Culture /Hemingway and Africa

Hemingway and Material Culture.

I invite expressions of interest from scholars interested in writing =an original scholarly essay (25-30 pages) on Hemingway's involvement =with the material culture of his day, both in his life and in his work. =Questions to be explored: How did Hemingway relate to material objects? =How do material objects (guns, magazines, clothes, swords, chairs, =boats, drinks, doors, cars, hotels, pictures, sleeping bags, what have =you) function in his poetry, fiction, journalism, book-length =nonfiction, letters, and other writings? How do they connect to the =physical and fictional body? to his construction of his own persona? to =his treatment of the natural environment? What are the implications of =these connections? And how have others connected objects to Hemingway =and to his writing? How have he, his characters, his life style, and his =literary style, been commodified? Interested scholars please write to =mbmandel_at_post.tau.ac.il

Hemingway and Africa (or Hemingway in Africa, or Africa in =Hemingway's Writing)

I invite expressions of interest from scholars interested in writing =an original scholarly essay (25-30 pages) on Hemingway's writing on =Africa, with focus on the the two safaris, Green Hills of Africa, True =at First Light (in its various incarnations), "Snows of Kilimanjaro," ="The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," African materials in other =works (e.g, the African story in Garden of Eden) and his letters and =journalism on Africa and African topics: hunting, landscape, myth, =conservationism, gender and body issues (e.g., scars) as they connect to =Hemingway's African experiences and his Africa-based reading and =writing. Interested scholars please write to mbmandel_at_post.tau.ac.il